Obama’s Eligibility: It’s a Matter of Faith

UPDATE: HotAir is currently running a post called Birthers and the paranoid center. The post analyzes a CNN poll that claimed 27% of Americans — and 41% of Republicans — say Pres. Obama was probably or definitely not born in the United States. However, the post completely ignores the fact that no state-level Secretary of State, and no member of Congress, ever inspected Obama’s initial birth certificate from the State of Hawaii. Instead, they took the word of Obama’s campaign and biased “fact-checking” organizations that have been repeatedlydiscredited in their “fact-checking”. As I make clear in this post, Obama’s eligibility is a matter of faith…

Obama’s eligibility to hold the office of President of the United States is “a matter of faith”.

If one takes the Obama “birth narrative” on faith, he was born at Kapi’olani Medical Center in Hawai‘i at 7:24 PM on August 4, 1961, to a mother who was a U.S. citizen and a father who was a subject of the British crown.

Has Obama ever publicly said anything even remotely close to, “I was born at Kapi’olani Medical Center in Hawai‘i at 7:24 PM on August 4, 1961”? No. Has he ever released documents directly from the State of Hawaii to prove his “birth narrative” is true? No. Has he ever released any original vital record document to prove he was born at Kapi’olani Medical Center in Hawai‘i? No. Has he ever explained his legal reasoning for why someone born a British subject should also be considered a “natural born citizen of the United States”? No.

It’s a matter of faith that the COLB produced at and by the Obama camapaign headquarters is authentic. The State of Hawaii has never claimed it is authentic and not a forgery. The digital image that is accepted by many people as “Barack’s COLB” was posted on Daily Kos within minutes of a mostly blank COLB template and the clearly forged COLB of “Haye I.B. Ahphorgerie” (“Hey! I Be A Forgery!”).

It’s a matter of faith that the 14th Amendment claims birth on U.S. soil makes one a “natural born citizen”. The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, does not define “natural born citizen”, and six years later, in 1874, the Supreme Court case of MINOR v. HAPPERSETT stated “The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens.” In 1874, the Constitution included the 14th Amendment. So again, the Supreme Court itself said that “The Constitution [including the 14th Amendment] does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens.” I repect Ed Morrissey, but he is flat wrong when he says

Well, actually, it is a matter of birth, at least, in the sense of natural-born citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment makes that all too clear…

The 14th Amendment defines “citizen”, not “natural born citizen”. The Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment does not say who shall be natural-born citizens.

It’s a matter of faith that the man known as “Barack Hussein Obama II” (a.k.a. “Barry Soetoro”) was born a “natural born citizen of the United States of America”.

Obama’s “birth narrative” is that he was born at Kapi’olani Medical Center in Hawai‘i at 7:24 PM on August 4, 1961, to a mother who was a U.S. citizen and a father who was a subject of the British crown.

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

It’s a matter of the public record that Obama’s own campaign admitted that the citizenship status of both father and son was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948.

It’s a matter of faith that the man known as “Barack Hussein Obama II” (a.k.a. “Barry Soetoro”, but not “Barack Obama Jr.”) was born a “natural born citizen of the United States of America”, even though his campaign admits he was born a British subject.

It’s a matter of faith that the man known as “Barack Hussein Obama II” (a.k.a. “Barry Soetoro”, but not “Barack Obama Jr.”) “neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya”. Given that Obama travelled to Kenya to actively campaign for Odinga, his allegiance to Kenya seems quite strong.

In fact, it’s a matter of the public record that the Official Report of the Kenyan National Assembly on Wednesday, 5th November, 2008 includes the following:

…the people of the United States of America have just had a historic election where the son of this soil, Barrack Hussein Obama, has been elected the 44th President of the United States of America…

…we are the home of the President-elect of the USA…

In fact, it’s a matter of the public record that the Official Report of the Kenyan National Assembly on Thursday, 25th March, 2010 (now srubbed from their web site, but not before I archived it here) includes the following:

If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation, how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the President of America?

Many researchers believe that the Founders’ definition of “natural born citizen” was the Natural Law definition, as explained by Vattel:

Even if it were to be revealed that Obama was born a natural born citizen, but with a true history that is different from the “birth narrative”, Obama would still not be eligible to hold the office of President, because fraud is grounds for impeachment.

Truth:
Senator Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, after it became a state on August 21st, 1959. Obama became a citizen at birth under the first section of the 14th Amendment

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Together we can make sure these negative and divisive attacks don’t affect this election.

Thanks for your help.

I think the line about “Smears claiming Barack Obama doesn’t have a birth certificate aren’t really about a piece of paper, though — they’re about manipulating you into thinking Barack is different.” is just a veiled way of accusing anyone who demands to see the long form birth certificate of… Racism. The same Alinsky tactics used over and over again.

I can clearly recall having learned in grammar school that France gifted the Statue of Liberty to us. I know he spent much of his time living abroad. Clearly, he is not an American. The question is: who is he…..really?

You are very welcome, let me know how you like it. I love the startpage as a search engine, just very frustrating no matter what search engine you use so much as disappeared. Link’s that I had saved from 18 months ago most now say 404 information no longer available, frustrating!

Obama considers the topic of citizenship to be a “loophole”;
a matter of faith rather than a matter of the rule of law.

More than two years ago, when questions arose about whether or not John McCain is a “natural born citizen”,

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign announced he would co-sponsor legislation introduced yesterday by his political ally Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) to ensure that John McCain can become president, even though he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

For more than two years, there has been debate over whether “natural born citizen” is established merely by Jus soli (Latin: law of ground), or whether “natural born citizen” also requires Jus sanguinis (Latin: right of blood).

Vattel said “natural born citizen” required both.

Obama now says that citizenship requires neither!

“Being an American is not a matter of blood or birth, it’s a matter of faith,”

Forget the Rule of Law; Obama believes in faith-based citizenship.

Now combine Obama’s words from 2008 with those from yesterday, replace McCain with Obama, and here’s what you get:

“I earned the right to be President, and no loophole should prevent me from acting as President. Being President is not a matter of blood or birth, it’s a matter of faith.”

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign announced he would co-sponsor legislation introduced yesterday by his political ally Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) to ensure that John McCain can become president, even though he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

“Senator McCain has earned the right to be his party’s nominee, and no loophole should prevent him from competing in this campaign,” Obama said

As we prepare to celebrate the 234th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776, let us take some time to consider what our Founders were thinking and doing in the months leading up to that event. It’s amazing the parallels between then and now…

IN times of impending calamity and distress; when the Liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret machinations and open assaults of an insidious and vindictive Administration, it becomes the indispensible duty of these hitherto free and happy Colonies, with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publickly to acknowledge the over ruling providence of God; to confess and deplore our offences against him; and to supplicate his interposition for averting the threatened danger, and prospering our strenuous efforts in the cause of Freedom, Virtue and Posterity…

OMG, Leza. Effing amazing. She wanted to explore American radicalism? Inspired by her radical brother Marc? A 1981 thesis from Princeton about SOCIALISM? And Obama simultaneously, if you believe the mythology, was at Harvard?

So first we get the Manchurian Marxist POTUS and now we’ll get a Manchurian Marxist SCOTUS judge FOR LIFE?

Can the lame Republicans PLEASE live up to their name and save our REPUBLIC, instead of laughing at Kagan’s wonderful sense of humor?

Amazing. Asshats, all.

Are they REALLY going to confirm this woman?

(I could make another comment about our first bi-POTUS and our possibly first gay SCOTUS judge, but that’s beneath me, right? NOT!)

This is only post I could find that linked info on Kagan nomination. Right place?? Got this in an email ! Will this info make a difference?
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Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

The Washington Times called it Elena Kagan’s
“kiss of death.” The more you learn about her
successful twisting of expert testimony on
abortion and then waffling about it in hearings
last week, the more incensed you will become
about her nomination to the Supreme Court.

More than a decade ago, Elena Kagan manipulated expert medical evidence submitted to the Supreme Court. What she did played a key role in the Supreme Court’s decision
to strike down the ban on the horrendous partial-birth abortion procedure. She did it for political reasons while working for the Clinton administration.

The Washington Times says Kagan “may be more responsible than anyone for keeping partial-birth abortion legal for an extra decade.” Pause for a moment to think about that.

In part because of Elena Kagan’s political activism, this horrific abortion procedure – which amounts to infanticide and culminates with a near full-term baby’s brains being
sucked out so the skull will collapse – continued to be performed across this country.

Elena Kagan’s “handwritten notes” show that she personally re-wrote the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) official assessment of partial-birth abortion to better comport with her political views on
abortion.

During her Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, Elena Kagan did everything in her power to avoid taking responsibility for manipulating ACOG’s expert testimony, but her defensiveness only spurred closer questioning.

Senator Orrin Hatch asked Kagan a very direct question:

“Did you write that memo?” Kagan never actually admitted she wrote the memo but was finally forced to reluctantly
acknowledge that,
“the document is certainly in my handwriting.”

This hand-written document should be the
“kiss of death” for Kagan’s confirmation!

The memo proves that she is a political activist who intentionally corrupted key expert evidence. And it proves that she holds radical pro-abortion political views that make it impossible for her to use the impartiality required of a Supreme Court Justice.

In the final analysis, Elena Kagan’s past
actions show that she is a political operative who would use a seat on the Supreme Court to advance a radical political agenda.

Excellent post Redpill :)
So he said being an American is a matter of faith?! What about being faithful to the U.S. Constitution? What about being faithful to the U.S. CITIZENS?!
I didn’t see his speech, so I missed his Statue of Liberty blooper. I’ll search the net for his speech — if any of you have the link handy….

Do we have a list/post of his “tells” /bloopers?

1. Anyone can be President — to hell with that “natural born citizen” requirement in the Constitution.
2. Statue of Liberty (got to find that speech now)
3. 57 States in the U.S.A.
4. Seeing fallen soldiers
5. !!!Corpsemen!!! as opposed to corpsmen

Feel free to add to the list lol.
Anyone care to post a proper “List of Tells”?

I haven’t watched network t.v. in, what feels like, years. I wonder whether one of the comedians has already done the list.

ALI !!!! Sooooo good to have you back !! Missed ya, need all the help we can get to continue to uncover the hidden! Sorry to hear about that cat dilemna…the OUT and the vinegar should do the trick…daily, I’m afraid..since you still have the “offender” ! lol !

I would add that we are NOT considered a Christian nation, that (in his mind)..we consider ourselves citizens of the world. I’m still humiliated that our so-called “leaders” have called us (We the People)…stinking, arrogant, divisive cowards !!!!! As Miri would say:

(((Hi Peach!))) I just came out, for a bit, from under my rock lol. I’ve lurked though, love the wtpotus crew and their work — their investigative skills never cease to amaze me.

You’re correct — I forgot that we are no longer considered a Christian nation lol.
“Cowards” — wasn’t that racist Holder who called us cowards. I am really disgusted with Holder regarding the Panther case — a bunch of racist thugs are running/destroying our country. Just as we had predicted — Zimbabwe.

Fantastic work, redpill !!!! As usual !
Hope everyone is having a great celebration of our freedom today !

Just found this at ‘TheHill’. Transparency…hahahaha…can we believe the data? There is a daily barrage of the most ignorant and ridiculous statements coming from the demorats that I literally have gotten past the anger and frustration; and end up LMBO at these insane ideas/thoughts/plans of these see-thru hypocrits ! We will win this battle !!

The White House on Friday released the salaries of its staff members ranging from its lowest-level employees to chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

Emanuel, press secretary Roberts Gibbs, senior adviser David Axelrod and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett make the top salary amount of $172,200 per year. Three staffers have their salaries listed as $0.

In total, the White House pays its staff $38,796,307.

“Since 1995, the White House has been required to deliver a report to Congress listing the title and salary of every White House Office employee,” the White House blog says. “Consistent with President Obama’s commitment to transparency, this report is being publicly disclosed on our website as it is transmitted to Congress.”

One note about Glenn Beck. Of Course, some of the things he is saying are reasonable. In general he makes sense, as long as people understand that he is being used and manipulated by the same puppeteers. I was wondering, why is he allowed to continue to speak so freely. In my opinion, the reason he is allowed to speak so freely, is that he is being used in certain moments to influence the conservatives. Something similar to the radio talk show host Hal Turner, who is known and admitted to be an FBI informant and saboteur.

Beck talks the talk in general, he is allowed to build a large conservative audience, but when it comes to it, he slamms real patriots and tries to steer the public towards the same old puppets of the regime, albeit puppets on the right, but still puppets, never the less. Remember, how he viciously attacked and ridiculed Deborah Medina, a real patriot and a real candidate of the people in TX, how he attacked birthers, without showing a basic decency to invite birthers on the show and hear the facts and the evidence. So my advice to you: listen to Beck in general, but don’t trust him and his advice on individual races.

Yesterday , as I was driving to the Tea Party, I heard Beck for a few minutes and it was enough for me. He viciously attacked JD Hayworth, who runs in AZ against McCain. even though Beck tried to state that he doesn’t really get involved in individual races, it is not true, it is obvious. Beck is a tool, like many other tools, to sell you on puppets, who go on with the program.

Don’t get me wrong, in 2008 I voted for McCain, as compared to Obama he was a lesser of two evils, hands down, however today, in 2010 I urge you to vote for JD Hayworth. Is he perfect? Of Course, not, but he is a lesser of two evils in 2010 AZ primary. McCain voted and pushed for amnesty. For this reason alone he needs to be voted out. As many Arizonans know, every 6 years he finds his conservative voice and uses it long enough to win another primary, and later promptly goes on to what he does best…

She is right.

Now this, on Fox News on July 4, there was a story that the border patrol had intercepted and seized a “homemade” submarine for the purpose of bringing in huge amounts of coke from Colombia.

But wait a minute. They showed a picture of it and a darned fine huge sub it was.
100 feet long and fifteen feet high, powered by diesel and electric engines.

Now I know drug smugglers have bucks, but this is a hard thing to build,
not something you knock out in an abandoned warehouse.
I doubt it was homemade. Russian or Chinede most likely.
What was it bring in? I doubt it was coca.
Why would a cover story be made up?
Any Ideas?
Please speculate.
I speculate it is part 3 and goes along with the soon to be
provoked war with Iran and what would be
billed as an Iranian response.

Placing this here..didn’t want to put on July 4th thread with all those happy thoughts ! Renee: Do you already have something on this Fenton guy? He is a Wide-Reacher it seems !
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O’ linked PR firm runs anti-Israel campaign

A top United States public relations firm has taken on a new job: Making Israel look bad on behalf of Qatar. Fenton Communications is working with Qatar on the Al Fakhoora project – an Internet campaign dedicated to breaking Israel’s blockade of Hamas in Gaza.

Fenton Communications will be paid almost $400,000 for the project, which describes Israel’s insistence on controlling naval access to Gaza as “brutal and inhumane” and “crippling.” It has registered under America’s Foreign Agent Registration Act.

The PR group works on behalf of a variety of clients, many of them politically liberal. Among its more well-known clients is MoveOn.org, an American group dedicated to ending the war in Iraq. It endorsed U.S. President Barack Obama in the last presidential elections and raised millions of dollars for his campaign.

Sincerely, do you comprehend the trip wires which only this blog has been featuring?

Do you comprehend Iran stating the Israeli state is a cancer, that they intend to wipe out Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Afghanistan all for their Caliph is a war event?

Do you comprehend the Slavic line from Poland to Macedonia is now in the Russian sphere that any events which erupts will be a war?

Do you comprehend that China’s development of a WMD missile to negate US carriers in the projection of US might in protecting it’s territory is an act of war?

Do you comprehend that the importation of Mexican illegals is meant to divide America for the purpose of internal strife so outside globalist forces will be able to advance their military, economic and territorial objectives, which means in effect an American Civil War which has already erupted under Mr. Obama in Los Angeles attacking Arizona and Cleveland attacking Arizona?

These trip wires are all through France, Norway, Germany, England on racial issues, as much as the millions of Koreans in Japan.

Do you comprehend that Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua and Argentina are a war front against the United States?

Do you comprehend that the Brazilian nuclear deal with Iran is designed to exposed what is left of the free west to nuclear terrorism which will initiate a nuclear war?

None of this has just built or happened by accident. All of this is about is neutralizing American economics, military and cultural power. The net result in weakness will initiate these trip wires for coming wars.

Mr. Obama in weakening and bloodying the American military has designed a situation so America will not fight back on fronts offshore so the war will come to America onshore.
There are nefarious objectives being initiated against the west by leftists in the west whose main objective is to overthrow the Republican forms of Government for their perpetual bourgeoisies and serf underclass, exactly as what is the status in Mexico, India, China, Russia and Africa.

These upheaval events are meant to trip wires of war, so in a 3rd world war objective all borders will be erased for a Star Trek united planet earth under one dictatorship.

The purpose of World War I was to initiate the League of Nations. World War II was to initiate the United Nations and World War III will be to initiate United Planet Earth.

World War I undid the system of Empire and King. World War II undid the system of the super states. World War III will undo the superpower, super economic pools, all so a minority elite will dictate to a weary terrified population a united thought to follow the patrician mandates.

US President Barack Obama indicated this at the end of his White House conversation with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu Tuesday, July 6, which both called “excellent.” What he said was there had been “no change” in US policy in the wake of the Non-Proliferation Treaty conference in May, which called on Israel to join the treaty. The US president stressed that given its size, history and the levels of threat Israel faces: “We will not ask Israel to take steps that endanger its security.”
debkafile’s Washington sources: This was taken to mean that the US policy of ambiguity regarding Israel’s reported nuclear arsenal was unchanged and Israel would not be pressed to joint the NPT.

Netanyahu praised the latest round of UN sanctions against Iran and the new US measures. He urged other countries to follow the US president’s lead and initiate much tougher sanctions. Only then will it be possible to tell if they are biting enough to prevent Iran attaining a nuclear weapon, said the Israeli prime minister.
The US president did not reply directly when asked if he had asked Israel to extend the 10-month settlement-Jerusalem construction freeze when it expires on September 26. He said he hoped the right climate would enable face-to-face talks to go forward by September and stressed he believes Israel and its prime minister are serious about peace and will take risks to achieve it.
He added that the Israeli people deserved a secure peace – not Iran’s proxies next door or rockets falling on them and repeated his call for Palestinian sovereignty and two states living side by side in peace. Confidence-building steps on both sides were important, said Obama. He had discussed Mahmoud Abbas the need to stop “engaging in provocative language, incitement and looking for opportunities to embarrass Israel.”
While the US president denied any rift with Israel, Netanyahu praised the cooperation with the US in fields which they both listed as the economy, international relations, military, maintaining Israel’s military edge and intelligence-sharing -in ways not always made public Netanyahu added that the special US-Israel bond – which both termed “unbreakable” – was beneficial to the region.
Obama added that the continuing cooperation had broadened since he and Netanyahu came to office and he hoped relations would continue to improve.
The Israeli prime minister and his wife are spending three days in the United States. He is due to meet with Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Jewish American leaders in New York. Sarah Netanyahu will also meet with the First Lady, Michelle Obama.

What I don’t like about this video though, is that the focus is on the birth certificate alone, as opposed to the fact that regardless where he was born, since o SR. was not a U.S. citizen, o JR. is ineligible because he is not a “Natural Born Citizen”. Natural born citizen = born on U.S. soil to U.S. citizen parents.
This is just a perfect setup for o JR. to whip out a U.S. birth certificate if questioned for 2012 (if o JR. was indeed born in Hawaii) — ***without addressing the citizenship of his Kenyan father .*** This is most likely how o and axelrod have planned it. Like Leo Donofrio said, o’s team is pulling a Chester Arthur.

OMG!!!! I can’t believe this. It’s priceless. I thought the exact same thing when I heard him say that Robin Carnahan asked him to prove his citizenship. So Ms. Carnahan “racially profiled” him? Just like Obama says that the Arizona statute might? Did she do this because his skin is brown? Shame on her, using the powers of her office to racially disciminate against a Hispanic candidate. It’s outrageous! :)

Hoist on her own petard.

I hope he does sue her. This is an obnoxious woman. She’s a fav of Senator McCaskill, another of the fawning obots.

btw, Hector Maldonado claims that the MO Sec. of State didn’t ask other candidates for the same office to prove their citizenship status. If true, then she most certainly is applying the law unequally and seems to be discriminating against candidates with brown skin and “funny names”. Does she assume (or hope) that this VETERAN is an illegal alien, so she can throw him off the ballot? Is she trying her hand at Obama-style, thuggish Chicago politics?

Somehow, Obama managed to see most of his previous opponents, up until McCain, thrown off ballots or disgraced in the press so that he never really had to run a fair contest against anyone. Look at the dirty tricks they pulled on Hillary Clinton.

Now we read stories at Drudge about how frantically the Democrats are trying to dig up dirt on every opponent. But hey. If they can’t find any, they’ll just make it up. And the lamestream media will “report” it and hype it until the election’s over and it’s too late to set the record straight.

This is a case of “thug infection” spreading to MO from IL. Here’s another example from IL:

Don’t you love how many strong, conservative women are out there, showing the men how it’s done?

You go, Cedra! You go, girl. (Renee, I need to add Cedra to our list of patriots.)

I’ll repeat this comment under his eligibility thread.
Recall I’ve been perplexed re the 1992 Lumumba articles. I wondered what happened to the other articles, why can we pull up some but not others. If scrubbed why not scrub all. Well, perhaps its all just another o team setup. Perhaps those articles were placed to backup the cia story.

Did you catch that the DHS was also investigating people who requested federal government documents via FOIA? It’s an epidemic. Napolitano, upon being caught by the AP, stopped the practice of intercepting all FOIA requests before they were filled, so political appointees could see if anything damaging might be exposed. She says she stopped it. Who believes her? Even the FBI doesn’t bother to actually learn what the law is concerning spying on private citizens. They’re so disinterested that, like so many others in this “new world order”, they simply rely on cheating.

UPDATE: HotAir is currently running a post called Birthers and the paranoid center. The post analyzes a CNN poll that claimed 27% of Americans — and 41% of Republicans — say Pres. Obama was probably or definitely not born in the United States. However, the post completely ignores the fact that no state-level Secretary of State, and no member of Congress, ever inspected Obama’s initial birth certificate from the State of Hawaii. Instead, they took the word of Obama’s campaign and biased “fact-checking” organizations that have been repeatedlydiscredited in their “fact-checking”. As I make clear in this post, Obama’s eligibility is a matter of faith…

I sent a check to the Not For Profit Kapiolani Med Center and stated that this donation was to be made and accepted only in the name of the Doctor that brought BHO into the world. The hospital returned my donation and stated that it was unable to give the information. Wrote the White House and never got a Reply. I wonder why. Lets all honor the Doctor that brought Little BHO to us.